Our unique perspectives form our understanding of the world around us. Life is a subjective experience; personal truths rule our existences, as opposed to cold hard facts. Reality as we know it is therefore fundamentally shaped by the words we read, the movies we watch, the faces and voices that surround us, and the beliefs and values we adopt as a result, almost always unconsciously.
Poetry provides us with various emotional lenses through which to view our realities. We read and absorb the words, and, if they resonate with us deeply enough, we expand upon them, coloring the poem with our own experiences and associations. We mold it to fit our own story, and use it as a tool to make better sense of our lives. In a very real way, the poems we love teach us who we are. They also help us to know that we are not alone.
With my degree project, I have reinterpreted a poem as an interactive visual experience, using my own creative filter and unique imagery in a way that remains deeply faithful to the spirit of the original material. Graphic design is based upon this very idea of making, interpreting, and remaking meaning, and designers communicate common experiences through unique persectives, just as poets do. I view my project as a conversation about personhood, and a demonstration of the place where poetry and design intersect. Perhaps most importantly, it celebrates that which unifies all humans: our emotions.
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